The difference between Foal and Mare
When used as nouns, foal means a young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old, whereas mare means an adult female horse.
Foal is also verb with the meaning: to give birth to (a foal).
check bellow for the other definitions of Foal and Mare
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Foal as a noun:
A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
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Foal as a noun (mining, historical):
A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
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Foal as a verb (ambitransitive):
To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
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Mare as a noun:
An adult female horse.
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Mare as a noun (UK, pejorative, slang):
A foolish woman.
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Mare as a noun (obsolete, or, historical):
A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
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Mare as a noun (UK, colloquial):
() A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
Examples:
"I'm having a complete mare today."
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Mare as a noun (planetology):
A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
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Mare as a noun (planetology):
On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.